Monthly Archives: May 2011

They appear to be really bad for children. In it, Florida pediatricians described cases of seizures, delusions, heart problems and kidney or liver damage in people who had drunk one or more non-alcoholic energy drinks—including brands like Red Bull, Spike Shooter and Redline. Suprisingly they say to just drink water. Imagine that.

Yep this is what happens when you offshore manufacturing. You get lax regulations. About 74 people have been detained this year after reports that more than 100 people were affected by lead and cadmium poisoning. Reports from China suggests hundreds of factories have been closed as a result of efforts to tackle poisoning. It does…

I think it’s great that the state is trying to help local farmers more easily transport food throughout the state. I mean local farmers and not agribusinesses. On May 23, the Senate passed bill S.614-b/A.1389-a, which was introduced by Sen. Jeffrey Klein, D-Morris Park and would allow the Urban Development Corp. and the Empire State…

Oh he loves life as it is—most certainly. I look forward to what it could be. The big risk here, of course, is rejection. We can all handle being disliked now and then, because there’s such an infinitely big pool of potential likers. But to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and…

The administration is actually doing what people have been asking the government to do for a long time. Instead of going after illegal immigrants go after the employers who hire and a lot of the times exploit them. After months of criticism from Republicans who said President Obama was relaxing immigration enforcement in workplaces, the…

Using a mask of “job creation” Scott Walker is planning to give away millions to his friends. The portion of the bill that has drawn intense bipartisan criticism is the Jobs Now Fund, which would provide $200 million in state tax breaks to insurance companies in exchange for $250 million of their own capital. Out-of-state…

In the short term when you have hostile conservatives in control of the House of Representatives and their like minded ilk in the US Senate there’s not much that can be done to fight climate change. I think what President Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg are doing focusing on cities throughout the nation is a good…

For all these years one word comes to mind and that word is class. Oprah Winfrey is a class act. I didn’t watch the show much but even as an adolescent in the 80’s all the way through my early adult hood (my 20’s) in the 00’s, Oprah was always a force for good…

There’s no funding for public education but there sure seems to be enough to keep jails going. The superintendent, Nathan Bootz, noted to local newspaper the Gratiot County Scribe that the state hadn’t taken funding from prisons. In fact, some of the eliminated school funding would be redistributed to boost prison funds. The superintendent is…

Now the WTO is interfering with how we label beef. You can tell this was a bad move because the Cattleman’s Beef Association loves the ruling. I bet they love E. coli too. These people are responsible for Barbara Kowalcyk’s two year old son dying from E. coli. Consumers, ranchers, farmers and legislators worked hard…